Past Programs
Environment - 2007
Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson Read Transcript
24/12/2007
Today, Ramona Koval presents an event from the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal, with Canadian husband-and-wife team Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, who are both authors and both avid bird-watchers. They speak of their wonder and intense involvement with the life of birds, and with birds' relationships to humans.
One of the most exquisite books to appear on our shelves in recent times has been a lovingly crafted collection of stories and images, poems and observations, myths and science; all gathered together as The bedside book of cirds: an avian miscellany with introductions to each chapter by Graeme Gibson.
Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson have been named joint honorary president of the Rare Bird Division of BirdLife international – an appointment which caused Margaret to describe them as 'the William and Mary of Orange of Birding'.
Nature writing and earthquakes with Dael Allison
11/09/2007
Nature writing is about land, place and environment. Britian has the romantic pastoral tradition, and of course there's Henry David Thoreau in the United States. In Australia, the lyrical tradition of Kendall and Patterson is prominent, but Dael Allison's approach is more political.
Dael Allison won this year's Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize for her piece called Polyp written about the coral reefs affected by an earthquake in Nias, Indonesia in 2005 after she spent eight months there volunteering for the United Nations.
Polyp appears in the Winter edition of Island, Tasmania's literary magazine.
Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson Read Transcript
20/05/2007
Today, Ramona Koval presents an event from the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal, with Canadian husband-and-wife team Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, who are both authors and both avid bird-watchers. They speak of their wonder and intense involvement with the life of birds, and with birds' relationships to humans.
One of the most exquisite books to appear on our shelves in recent times has been a lovingly crafted collection of stories and images, poems and observations, myths and science; all gathered together as The Bedside Book Of Birds: An Avian Miscellany with introductions to each chapter by Graeme Gibson.
Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson have been named joint honorary president of the Rare Bird Division of BirdLife international – an appointment which caused Margaret to describe them as 'the William and Mary of Orange of Birding'.
Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson Read Transcript
15/05/2007
Today, Ramona Koval presents an event from the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal, with Canadian husband-and-wife team Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, who are both authors and both avid bird-watchers. They speak of their wonder and intense involvement with the life of birds, and with birds' relationships to humans.
One of the most exquisite books to appear on our shelves in recent times has been a lovingly crafted collection of stories and images, poems and observations, myths and science; all gathered together as The bedside book of cirds: an avian miscellany with introductions to each chapter by Graeme Gibson.
Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson have been named joint honorary president of the Rare Bird Division of BirdLife international – an appointment which caused Margaret to describe them as 'the William and Mary of Orange of Birding'.
